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I got this as well earlier... close your browsers... Refresh. I got it once and then it disappeared. Someone had this in the beginning when I set up the forums but it went away and we've never been able to recreate it. I don't know what to fix unless i can recreate it. Safe swoops Sangiro

This is actually a good idea regardless. I've implemented it.

And sometimes a little "religion" I hear. Safe swoops Sangiro

It was good enough for me to understand, but not good enough that you should try to write a song yet! But that doesn't really matter. Where I come from it's a sign of respect when someone tries to speak your language. Safe swoops Sangiro

Drakones et Drakainai surely has to be real.... Since most of the Drakones and Drakanai was believed to be descendants of Typhoeus and Ekhidna and the latter lived in a cave in the country of the Arimoi in Central Asia I think that would be a good place to start your search. Otherwise you can start at the City of Angels...in the US of A, in which case I'll buy you a jump ticket!

Spelling mistakes or not, that will do me fine! Thank you.

True, true.... but as a romantic I'm in the company of some great Americans: Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Walt Whitman ...and that odd bunch who penned the Declaration of Independence!

Ek weet jy verstaan ou maat. Safe swoops Sangiro

I thought America celebrated the freedom of people to proclaim as true everything that you spend your life fighting against? As for how the world views America. I love America or I won't be moving back there. But don't be surprised, or pissed off if people in many other places in the world simply don't understand or even loath some US policies. People cannot make sense of some of it because it appears to be hypocritical. Nope, America certainly cannot please everyone all the time. But why does it feel like everyone has to please America all the time? Can anyone afford not to without running the risk of being sanctioned either financially or militarily? Or is it just America who has the luxury of not having to please others because it has the largest military in the world? In Africa more people die every day of AIDS than everyone put together on September 11 in the US. I know horror can scarcely be measured using a numbers comparison but this is still happening, it's ongoing, every day. It's a silent killer, it's removed from your TV screens. It terrorizes a continent killing mostly innocent women and children. For years activists have been trying to win world (read mainly US) approval to distribute generic AIDS drugs in Africa. These are much cheaper and would be much more available. Millions of lives could be prolonged or even saved. The US government, together with large corporations have opposed and fought the use of generic AIDS drugs, citing intellectual property (IP) and patent violations. AIDS vaccines can be manufactured and distributed for 1/10th of their current price. The South African government deserves credit for withstanding over the last several years massive pressure from the Clinton-Gore administration, the European Union and the drug companies themselves. Recently 39 multinational brand-name drug corporations (supported by the US government) dropped their suit against the government of South Africa to pave the way for the use of generic AIDS drugs. Shortly after the first anthrax letters were opened in the US Sen. Charles Schumer, D-NY, said existing law allows the federal government to purchase generic Cipro, the antibiotic most often mentioned as an anthrax treatment, bypassing the commercial patent held by the German pharmaceutical giant Bayer. That was fast! I know the whole issue of IP and patents and the funding of research is much more complex that my little simplification above. But for people dying in Africa, it's even simpler than that. They look at this and say: "Wow, I guess life is more important in the US. It's different when it's your people dying." They look at this and ask: "With all this money we're spending fighting the war on terrorism, are we fighting the right wars?" Then they look at this new national security strategy document and they ask: "What was that part about human dignity again?" Don't see this as an "America bad, the rest good" post. People fear America may be loosing perspective from staring at its navel for too long. My understanding is that America was founded on diversity of thought and tolerance of descent. Nowadays the world unfortunately too often see a mentality that seem to suggest: All the freedoms and responsibilities of the US constitution we bestow on our people, and on you... whether you want it or not, and if you don't we'll kick the shit out of you till you understand and proclaim that you actually do want it! Hold your hand against you nose and see if you can focus on it. You need to move it away a bit before you can see what was right in your face. (Disclaimer: There may be several spelling mistakes and grammatical errors in my post. I can speak your language. Can you speak mine?) Safe swoops Sangiro

It's not a bad thing to do at all. It's simply a practical arrangement to keep a little method in the madness. Think about all the worthy causes that may be out there - fighting AIDS, banning landmines, saving the rain forest, plugging the ozone, tackling famine in Africa, eliminating child labor, battling domestic violence, .... the list would be too long..... If all of them posted to the Gear and Rigging forum on the merits of their cause we'd be hard pressed to say they're doing something "bad". We'd also be hard pressed to find any info on skydiving gear between the noise!

Just aim a little lower in the crumb-trail... Forums: Dropzone.com: Suggestions and Feedback:

Heya all, The Dropzone.com Perris Valley Labor Day Gathering 2002 write up by Sebazz1 is up in The Pub (which you can access from the homepage or the top of this page) Thanks to Sebazz1 for the write-up, Jessica for some editing and Viking for the photos!

Nope - people seem to be OK with keeping a thread about what you're drinking alive. I think this one has more relevance...

Ooops! Sorry dear! Safe swoops Sangiro

3) The subject line is linked to the post in the new forum so you can jump there 4) You cannot reply to the post in the original forum anymore Again, it will link to the thread in the other forum and you will not be able to post to that thread in THIS forum anymore. Safe swoops Sangiro

Cool.

As if you ever needed this forum or any other forum just to make another post! If you didn't do it here i'm sure you'd have found another spot in about 23 seconds and made it there! Safe swoops Sangiro

What's confusing? The functionality or my explanation? The functionality is what it is... not rocket science at all. If the explanation is unclear help me understand what you don't understand and I'll try again... Safe swoops Sangiro

Yes, welcome back Clinton. Click on this link to check out the forum rules and some cool suggestions that will make your stay in the forums much easier. I don't allow any kind of advertising in the forums - like Jimbo said, use the Classifieds for that. ...and one more thing, dude, you gotta keep your mom out of these forums... it's gone from bad to worse! Safe swoops Sangiro

Heya all, I've added a piece of functionality that will enable you to log what changes you've made to a post. Now when you click on "Edit" to change a post you'll see an extra field where you can enter a short reason for the change. You don't have to fill this in but it's a good way to enable people to go back and see what changes you made so as not to loose context. It's especially useful if follow-up posts have already been made on the original. To see the edit history, you just click on the small "edited" link in the notification at the bottom of a changed post. The edit log will be displayed.

Heya all, I've added a feature that I think will help with some of the confusion that sets in every time a thread's been moved. In the past, when we moved a thread it simply disappeared from the forum it was in and showed up in another forum. Problem with this is that there was nothing to tell people what just happened to their thread.... In this forum look for a recent post with the subject "equipment options". I moved that one to Gear and Rigging. From looking at that post you should be able to see how it works now. 1) The icon changes to show the post has been moved 2) The word "Moved" is added to the front of the subject line 3) The subject line is linked to the post in the new forum so you can jump there 4) You cannot reply to the post in the original forum anymore That's it. Hope this helps.

Heya all, I've added a feature that I think will help with some of the confusion that sets in every time a thread's been moved. In the past, when we moved a thread it simply disappeared from the forum it was in and showed up in another forum. Problem with this is that there was nothing to tell people what just happened to their thread.... Here's what will happen in the future when a thread is moved: 1) The icon changes to show the post has been moved 2) The word "Moved" is added to the front of the subject line 3) The subject line is linked to the post in the new forum so you can jump there 4) You cannot reply to the post in the original forum anymore That's it. Hope this helps. Safe swoops Sangiro

Spectre230? Safe swoops Sangiro

Oh believe me Clay, I know the SF menu very well! Safe swoops Sangiro

Chuck - 20 years of army food? Safe swoops Sangiro